Clutch Set up for 225 V6 to 1979 CJ7 T150 Transmission
salemvajim
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We have a new to us 79 CJ7 . The vehicle had 1968 225 V6 installed, from an old Comando, originally with headers. Some one crudely converted the clutch linkage to hydralic with undersized master cylinder and slave on a home made bracket with poor geometry. I think the original factory linkage was removed and converted to hydralic to make space for the headers. The headers are gone.
We replaced the hydralics master and slave in November by tracking down the part number. 1979 never had hydralic clutch. My son drives the jeep regularly to school and the badly installed hydralic set up has failed already. It took a lot of pressure on the pedal to engage.
We have a good tranmission guy helping us fix this right. A lot of things were home made on this clutch set up. The combination of the V6 and the T-150 in a CJ is a fairly common if not popular swap. Can anyone tell me what set up is used for the clutch linkage on a V6 conversion ie. bell housing etc. What clucht can be used.
The clutch is an old three finger style which takes a lot of force to engage. My guess is the fork was adapted with a welded extension. We are wondering if a new diaphram clutch would make sense? Less force.
Right now I am thinking the best way to go would be to go back to manual linkage but we think the inside bracket may have to tie into a boss or receiver on the engine block that wouldnt be there on a V6 instead of the factory engine? I would be grateful for any advice or direction. Thanks.
We replaced the hydralics master and slave in November by tracking down the part number. 1979 never had hydralic clutch. My son drives the jeep regularly to school and the badly installed hydralic set up has failed already. It took a lot of pressure on the pedal to engage.
We have a good tranmission guy helping us fix this right. A lot of things were home made on this clutch set up. The combination of the V6 and the T-150 in a CJ is a fairly common if not popular swap. Can anyone tell me what set up is used for the clutch linkage on a V6 conversion ie. bell housing etc. What clucht can be used.
The clutch is an old three finger style which takes a lot of force to engage. My guess is the fork was adapted with a welded extension. We are wondering if a new diaphram clutch would make sense? Less force.
Right now I am thinking the best way to go would be to go back to manual linkage but we think the inside bracket may have to tie into a boss or receiver on the engine block that wouldnt be there on a V6 instead of the factory engine? I would be grateful for any advice or direction. Thanks.
As far as the Hydraulic clutch and the related Master & slave cylinder is concerned it is all about matching the correct Bore size's with each other and at the same time getting the correct pedal ratio at the Swing Pedals........... The mounting at the Bell Housing is also important , but will get into that later...........Once all the correct sizes are in place along with the proper ratio's the system will work correctly with an average amount of force to apply.............Pictures of what you have along with the bore sizes of both will allow us to correct your problem.......